Welcome aboard Wokker!
As other posters have suggested, SH3 may be the place to start, you can pick it up very cheap these days. It has five years worth of mods behind it as well, which definitely helps. SH4 is also worth a look if you happen to like US Fleet Boats, and likewise has been heavily modded.
Don't believe everything you read about SH5 though, certainly it has it's fair share of problems, and is currently quite rough around the edges in places, but it's nowhere near the diabolical failure some are claiming it to be. The net requirement is a bone of contention with many, myself included, but aside from this the game is still enjoyable (in my opinion).
By the time you have yourself well acquainted with the series, SH5 will probably have received several patches, and possibly the first of the super mods. I suspect you might want to take a look at it by that time.
Other than that, enjoy the game!
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"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea." - H. G. Wells
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